If you’ve used grep to search for text or patterns in files, you’ll love ripgrep - a command-line utility tool written in Rust. By default, ripgrep will respect gitignore rules and automatically skip hidden files/directories and binary files. ripgrep is grep on steroids. It’s super fast for searching patterns within single files and huge directories of files. In this blog, I’ll help you get started with using ripgrep and hope it’ll help you become more productive on the command-line.
